Eighteen-year-old Shifa Ansari completed her school degree from Sarvodaya Kanya Vidyalaya in Kalkaji last year. Soon after, she enrolled herself at a course under Delhi University’s School of Open Learning (SOL). Over the last couple of days, Ansari has been taking time out from her busy schedule to attend a leadership programme — in a bid to “give back to the system” that made her who she is today.
The leadership programme, initiated by Alohomora Education Foundation, an NGO which works with children and adolescents, is aimed at providing government school students the kind of the exposure they never get. For this purpose, 20 youngsters, including Ansari, are undergoing a training programme to become what is known as Community Leads. After summer break, the Community Leads will counsel government school students of classes XI-XII and provide them career guidance.
This is a programme which can be replicated in other area too and would be of much help in schools, specially the government ones.
Read more of this in a report by Shradha Chettri published in The Indian Express.....
